78 Quotes About Nonconformity

Liberty is not a new thing, animals live in absolute liberty with no bounds whatsoever since they came to existence on this planet, yet the animal world is not civilized, you know why – because though they have liberty, they do not have the brain capacity for accountability - and that very absence of accountability makes the kingdom of absolute liberty also the kingdom of absolute cruelty. Hence, it's accountability we ought to focus on, not liberty.

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.

If you don’t give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

When a composer feels a responsibility to make, rather than accept, he eliminates from the area of possibility all events that do not suggest that at that point in time vogue of profundity, for he takes himself seriously, wishes to be considered great, and he thereby diminishes his love and increases his fear and concern about what people will think.

Out of the box' doesn't just describe how I eat cereal,” said Ray on his first job interview in several years, “but you could say the same thing about where my cats poo and my thinking.

Not being yourself is the worst form of self-disrespect.

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer.